starless
a. 没有星的, 没有星光的
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释义与例句
adj.
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1.
Without visible stars.
The starless night was very dark.
1940, Robert Hayden, "Sonnet to E.," lines 1-2, in Heart-Shape in the Dust, cited in "Robert Hayden: The Apprenticeship: Heart-Shape in the Dust (1940)", African-American Poets, Volume 1: 1700s—1940s, edited by Harold Bloom, Infobase, 2009, p. 15, Beloved, there have been starless times when I / Have longed to join the alien hosts of death,
词汇关系
反义词 1
词源
From Middle English sterreles, equivalent to star + -less. Piecewise doublet of asterless.
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